

It will upgrade any existing CPAS 1.3 or 1.4 system that was originally installed using the Windows installer. The Windows installer is the easiest way to install or upgrade an existing CPAS installation. If you already installed CPAS 1.4 via a CD you received at ASMS or from a download prior to 7/8/06 you should upgrade if you are encourtering any of the above issues or want the latest version of X! Tandem PeptideProphet support. For a list of new features in 1.4, see What's New in CPAS 1.4. If you're running CPAS 1.3 or earlier, now is a great time to upgrade to CPAS 1.4. Improve PeptideProphet discriminant function for native X! Tandem scoring.Allow exporting ProteinProphet information to Excel ( Issue #1435).Allow sorting and filtering on protein annotation columns in protein views ( Issue #1439).Fix Mascot2XML pepXML converter on Windows ( Issue #1440).This release includes a few improvements from the version we distributed for ASMS via CD and our download site. We just released an update to CPAS, version 1.4-4355, available immediately via the download page. Improvements in Mascot support, user interface, export capabilities, performance, and reliability.Preliminary support for PeptideProphet validation using X! Tandem scoring.CPAS pipeline supports launching and monitoring X! Tandem searches that use the ISB components.Windows setup installs a full proteomics pipeline, now adding PeptideProphet, ProteinProphet, XPRESS quantitation, and various pepXML converters, all developed at the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) and optimized for Windows by Insilicos.Graphical Windows installer now upgrades existing CPAS 1.3 installations.The CPAS development team is pleased to announce the immediately availability of CPAS version 1.4.
